Zsh Mailing List Archive Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author

Re: `repeat` with special characters - "bad math expression: illegal character"

X-seq: zsh-workers 47862
From: Lawrence Velázquez <vq@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Patrick Reader <_@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: `repeat` with special characters - "bad math expression: illegal character"
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2021 14:33:02 -0500
Archived-at: <https://zsh.org/workers/47862>
Archived-at: <http://www.zsh.org/sympa/arcsearch_id/zsh-workers/2021-01/D7AB4F13-4405-4368-8B01-465566AFCF5D%40larryv.me>
In-reply-to: <010201773071544b-42b5de91-3fc9-411d-9f9c-ffb0f1a260e8-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>
List-id: <zsh-workers.zsh.org>
References: <010201773071544b-42b5de91-3fc9-411d-9f9c-ffb0f1a260e8-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com>

> On Jan 23, 2021, at 1:11 PM, Patrick Reader <_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I use the `repeat` complex command with an arithmetic expression containing one of the following special characters:
> 
> * = ^ ?
> 
> I get an error message in the form "zsh: bad math expression: illegal character: \M-X". The "X" is replaced by one of G M F W (corresponding to the symbols above). This doesn't happen if I wrap the character in single or double quotes, or escape it with a backslash. It still happens with even the options `noglob`, `noequals`, `nomagicequalsubst` which I thought might be causing them to be misinterpreted.
> 
> Why does this happen?

Could you provide an example?

vq

References:
- `repeat` with special characters - "bad math expression: illegal character"
  - From: Patrick Reader

Messages sorted by: Reverse Date, Date, Thread, Author